A Visitor to the Mountains Chapter 20 Insidious Plants
The headless man was covered in blood and was blown up above the shoulder.
It was the bald man who got a headshot.
He grabbed my neck with such force that I felt like my neck might break in the next second!
Seeing this, the monster hurriedly fired a shot, knocking off one of the bald man's arms, and under the impact of the bullet, the bald man fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, and then stopped moving. Then, like Li Guoqiang before, he also turned into a dried corpse at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"This, what's going on!" For the first time, the youkai said in surprise when he saw the corpse quickly turn into a dried corpse.
"Look!" The eagle pointed to the mandrill on the ground that was still struggling.
I saw that on the half of the mandrill's face without epidermis, there were many yellow-green dots, dense, like insect eggs!
"It's not dead yet! How did it get moldy! What a wicked door! The monster said in disgust.
"It's not moldy! Yes, yes...... Spore! Tang Zhengcao said in surprise.
"Spores?! You mean, those spores on the vines? The eagle asked.
"Yes, that's the ...... But, but...... Wait a minute, let me sort it out. Tang Zhengcao said incoherently.
"There is a problem with this plant, they are able to parasitize on people." At this time, Ning Fanzi spoke.
"Parasitism? How do you know? Eagle asked.
"I don't remember exactly." Ning Fanzi said.
"You can't remember? Have you been here? The eagle looked at Ning Fanzi.
"Like...... I can't remember......" Ning Fanzi repeated what he had just said, his eyes became hollow, and he seemed to be stuck in a memory.
"He suffered a severe head injury in a car accident and now has amnesia! I can't remember a lot of things! I explained.
"Amnesia from a car accident? What do you think about making idol dramas? If you say you don't remember, you don't remember! The youkai sarcastic.
"Parasitic...... Turn into a dried corpse...... I know! Tang Zhengcao suddenly said loudly!
"What do you know again! Yelling! The youkai smacked his lips.
"Cordyceps! The growth principle of this spore plant is the same as that of Cordyceps fungus! It's all parasitic on other creatures to draw nutrients! Do you remember the Zoroastrian ruins, which were full of humanoid tree stumps and human faces that we dug up in bomb shelters? Those are not plants, but people who have been drained of nutrients by spore fungi! ”
"So, will we be parasitized?" I thought back to the plants, or people, and said in horror.
"We've hallucinated, we should have been parasitized, or more precisely, we carry this sporium sclerotia. But judging from a series of situations, this spore fungus will only multiply in the body of the newly dead organism to absorb water and nutrients, and the previous Achang's corpse, and now the bald corpse, should be caused by the spores triggering certain nervous systems when they swim in the human body. Tang Zhengcao said.
"You mean, as long as we don't die, we won't be taken advantage of by these plants?" Eagle asked.
"Yes, but they can have some effects on our sensory system, such as hallucinating us and things like that." Tang Zhengcao nodded.
", then this mandrill is not dead, how can this spore become active!" The youkai pointed to the mandrill.
"No, it's dead. Its current struggle is nothing more than an illusion of spores swimming and multiplying within it. Tang Zhengcao said.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the mandrill to turn into a dried corpse.
"Hey, this plant is really damaging, first make people hallucinate, kill each other, and wait for everyone to die and then come out for a good meal, it's poisonous! It's a blessing in misfortune that we didn't die. The youkai sighed.
"But we're trapped here now, just as we are waiting to die." I emphasized.
"What a place is this! Why are there burial chambers underground? The eagle watched around.
"This is the real burial chamber, and the one above is just a suspicious grave." I replied.
"Suspicious graves? I said, why didn't this coffin hit the ground, it turned out to be a fake! Hmph, I didn't expect it, the owner of this tomb, the mechanism is exhausted, and we still found his coffin in the first place! You two, open it with me! The monster rubbed his hands together.
"We're stuck here now, shouldn't we figure out how to get out first?" I asked.
"Open the coffin first, and then figure out a way." Eagle spoke.
I didn't want to deal with these two guys, but they had guns, and I had to give in.
At this time, most of the coffin was buried by stones, and it took me, Ning Fanzi and the monster three people to finally clean up the coffin for half an hour.
"Take a break." I was so tired that I felt a dull pain in my back where I had been beaten by the mandrill, and the wound on my lower back was even more painful.
The temperature in the burial chamber was very high, and I sat on the floor feeling stuffy and thirsty.
"Really don't find a way? If we continue like this, we will die of thirst and we will be suffocated. "I said to the youkai.
"Do you see a way out of this place? If there were, you would have escaped a long time ago, waiting for the two of us to come down? Let me tell you Ye Feng, we came here for this coffin, and now it is placed in front of us, is it appropriate not to open it? The monster spoke eloquently, as if tomb robbing was as common as eating and drinking.
"If you want to open it yourself, I can't bear it, anyway, it's going to die!" I broke the jar and broke the road.
"Boy, you can, you are, you see death as home! Courage is commendable! The monster was stunned for a moment and raised his eyebrows.
I twisted my face to the side and didn't answer his words.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you, you saved me just now, how can I take revenge! However, I'm going to die anyway, I'll send your brother on the road first, what do you think? The monster pointed a gun at Ning Fanzi and said.
"You!"
I was so angry that I couldn't speak, he actually threatened me with the life of a mortal!
"Hehe, obediently open this coffin with me, maybe there will be a way to live!" The youkai said with a wicked grin.
It's a pipe dream. I sneered inwardly.
Under the coercion of the monster, I can only continue to help him open the coffin.
Surprisingly, however, the coffin was not as strong as we had imagined, and we easily opened it. The inside of the coffin is more gorgeous than the outside, the interior of the whole coffin is very complicated, it is like a Russian pottery doll, layer after layer, each layer of the coffin lid is inlaid with different gemstones, carved with delicate patterns, there is still a small space between the layers, specially used to place gold and silver wealth, it is hard to imagine how the craftsmen of that time created such an ingenious work of art.
After about seven or eight layers of the outer coffin, we finally saw the real coffin inside. This coffin is made of delicate white jade, and unlike the intricate coffins on the outside, there are no decorations or carvings on the coffin.
The coffin was very heavy, and me, Tang Zhengcao, the monster and the eagle worked together to finally open the coffin lid. The owner of the tomb lay straight inside, and I kept my head down, not daring to look at it at all.
When I was a child, I often heard my grandmother say that digging up graves and prying graves will not only damage yin and morality, but will also cause retribution to one's children and grandchildren, and if you go to hell, you will be tortured by severe punishments. Although I don't believe in ghosts and gods, I still have a very weak heart, and this thing, both morally and legally, is deeply hateful.
I'm ashamed that I'm doing something like this.
"W-That's not right!"
When the coffin was opened, I did not hear the robbers shouting of triumphant joy. The Eagle's tone was one of disappointment.
"How so!" Immediately afterwards, the youkai was also surprised.
"What's wrong?" I couldn't help but ask.
"See for yourself!" The monster said angrily.
I couldn't help but glance inside the coffin, and saw that the owner of the tomb was in the shape of a dried corpse, and it seemed to be holding something in his mouth, but this was not the point, the point was that it was actually wearing a gray-white tunic suit.
This is a Republican.